Contributor zsolt320i

As the title says theme support for transparent images for panel. right know is you use a image thats has parts of images transparent is just shows the defalt ubuntu panel in the part that's transparent

Let's first examine some facts...

Number of employees from Wikipedia:
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Canonical: 130
RedHat: 2200
Novell: 4100

While this is not necessarily 100% accurate of how many linux contributors each company employs, it provides a good hint.


I recently read an article here about kernel contribution:
https://www.linuxfoundation.org/publications/linuxkerneldevelopment.php
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RehHat: # changes 9,351 or 11.2%
Novell: # changes 7,385 or 8.9% (up from 3.6% last year)
The lowest number of changes by a company in that article was 285 and canonical didn't even make the list.

I understand that canonical is not a hardware company and as such may not contribute to add support for additional hardware, but it can still contribute. THis also is not isolated to the linux kernel.


Canonical employs only a couple of people to work on gnome. Most of the people are employed by Redhat/Novell. Similarly for KDE, this is likely Novell/Trolltech.

I imagine the situation is the same for core applications that are relied on by the average user.

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There is a nifty looking utility newly made for Fedora, found here https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator , which will turn a live CD iso (either local or downloading it first) into a live USB installation, with an optional amount of persistent storage area.

The tool is coded in Python and QT4, so it works on Windows and Linux. I know that distros like to keep any advantage they can over each other, but nevertheless it would be awesome to see this tool get some more love and for it to become more generic.

It would make a nice complement to Wubi.

If a USB disk is plugged in and and all partitions are mounted in, unmounting one partition shouldn't display the message "Safe to remove device" as other partitions are still mounted in the system.

When you have a slow computer, you really don't want to update while working. It slows down everything you do. So i would like to see an option in the shut-down menu update and shut-down. Or when there are new updates detected, you already can choose for installing them on shut-down.
A lot of people i know would find this very handy, especially the ones I've convinced to use ubuntu because it stays fast instead of microsoft.

this is not the same idea as http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea 4511

When installing Ubuntu on a multi hard-drive system, both drives show up in the installer. However, once installed and booted, the drive that Ubuntu was not installed on is not easy to find (partitions are easy to see but can only be mounted with root access). Ubuntu, maybe in the installer or after initial boot should ask about these hard drives/partitions and give the option to automatically mount them on boot.

At the moment the software sources tool does a few things. It lets the user choose which mirror to use via a combo box, it lets the user choose which sections of the repository to use via tick boxes, it adds keys, and a few other things. What it also does is to allow users to add third party repositories, yet the way it does this is hardly worth making a tool for.

When a user wants to add a third party repository they click the "Add" button, then they're presented with a text box, into which they need to put the line which is to be added to the sources.list file. To me I would not call this a GUI at all, I would call it a text editor. The only advantages of this way are that a) it is arguably easier to see which sources are commented and uncommented and to change their state, and b) it gives Ubuntu some kind of olive branch to the commandline-haters of the Internets.

In my opinion if this is going to be done graphically then at least make it use the abilities of a GUI besides the text box. Obviously I cannot say exactly how this would be done as I'm not a usability or dpkg expert. Perhaps something like a text box for ONLY the URI, which can then be queried for the sections it contains, which would allow dynamic creation of a selection similar to the current main/restricted/universe/multiverse section of the tool. A tick box could be included for whether to include sources, saving the user from having to enter two lines (one deb and one deb-src).

Any thoughts?

When you resize a window, you should be able to have it snap to other windows, either by default or an option.

Hei..

Synaptic its very good pack-program..

Im use (mostly) Gnome.. So i dont install progs for KDE.. So it could be more more easy to install software and decide what i want IF there was some icon that show what Desktop the program are fore.. If it are for Gnome or KDE...

Put icon/logo of Gnome Or KDE beside name of Package../progs..

Sorry my english...

Hope u understand.. this vil be very important for many users...

i use synaptic as a front end for apt-get but there is an important thing synaptic don't have it's pausing the download and then resuming it ... in such cases :

1- i was downloading 100MB and my bandwidth is too low (6Kb/s) then it'll be downloaded in 5 hours , the electricity has been cutoff and the pc is off then i have to download it from the start

2- the user downloading large package and he used accidentally the sudo poweroff command then synaptic here starts over from the start of the downloads and ignore all the progress it made

3- the user want for any reason to pause the downloads of the applications , maybe he needs internet bandwidth for now and will resume the download later ... then now he can't do it

4. Download Packages and install them later : User want to download Packages now , but should for any reason leave fast the PC and shutdown it , and by the next Start user want to install the Packages.

but if the SYNAPTIC do that it'll be a very useful thing

Everyone by now has seen the world famous mockups of what Ubuntu apparently should look like. The problem is that what is shown in those mockups is not yet possible with the current way gnome works.

I worry with everyone clambering for this mythical theme and with time running out before 8.10 ships, what will end up happening is Ubuntu will ship with the same old problematic brown and orange theme that is so hated by a lot of people.

There is a solution though...

The Dust theme
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Intrepid/DustTheme

The Dust theme has gotten a lot of praises on Digg and is easily as sexy as anything I've personally seen for Linux (and I'm not usually a fan of dark themes), bust most promising of all... is actually possible with the current technology we have at our disposal.

It's time to be bold! Stop defaulting to the same brown and orange and make a big bold change. Embrace Dust.

Yes you will get a few idiots who will say it's too like Vista just because it's black, but ignore them people. The wider tech community will praise Ubuntu for finally ditching its dorky themes and becoming sophisticated and sexy. New users will be eager to try out this Ubuntu thing they have heard so much about.

Ubuntu needs better artwork. Everybody know Fedora and Opensuse look better than ubuntu.
I'm not trying to say that the look is more important than the OS or the current theme is ugly but lets be honest the look is the first impression.

I appreciate the current efforts from ubuntu, but with this level of art I don't think "Ubuntu will surpass Apple in two years" as what Mark Shuttleworth said. I know there are a lot of buzz around deviantart this days, and I hope it makes some changes in intrepid, but with my full respect for the community contribution with the OS; ubuntu should have an artwork team which can be creative and handle this work correctly.

I think that icons on the desktop should be smaller, especially picture previews, and previews of pdf files. With this size of icons, desktop gets messy really fast.
Spacing between icons is too large.

Ubuntu has a great implementation for getting a Dualboot-system if one doesn´t want to completely switch over from Windows to Ubuntu.
The installation is easy enough for former Windows users.

But its much more difficult when it comes to silly ideas like "I want to have another Linux-OS on my Computer".
If you don´t have the standart layout (whatever the reason is for that) you run into deep troubles when you are not so experienced.
The other Linux OS, Ubuntu included will overwrite the Grub of the already existing Linux OS when you don´t care about "where do I put the bootloader?".
Or the Grub of the existing Linux-OS will not recognise a new installation if you put the bootloader of the additional Linux somewhere else (not into MBR)

So my idea and question is:
would it be possible to implement some feature into the install and partitioning routine which detects other Linux-Grub installations and asks the user: "there is another Linux. Do you want to keep it?" and two buttons: "yes, please add yourself to the boot-menu" and "no, please delete the old system"

With clicking the "yes"-button Ubuntu should add its bootloading-stuff to the existing GRUB so that after the reboot the user could chose like it is in Ubuntu-Windows Dualboot systems. I mean such an automated mechanism like it is existing for existing windows-installations.

With clicking the "no" Button Ubuntu could proceed like before: overwriting the GRUB and boot-files in the MBR.

How about this? Is it a great idea or... just stupid? :-))

Thanks and greetings

Should be relatively easy to accomplish, and is currently pretty unnecessarily limited.

In power management, the default P.M. tool in hardy allows you to set a monitor sleep time and a "Put computer to sleep when inactive for:" slider... ...that only goes up to 1 hour! After that, your only choice is "Never" It's just silly to not allow more flexability there.

I've been having problems when I tried to use the sleep functionality, so I wouldn't want an hour away to put my computer into sleep mode, but after a day, or 12 hours, or something long like that, I'd prefer my computer went into sleep mode than that it stayed on.

Increase the range of options to cover one full day, so that it can be useful without ever interrupting a user's workflow, (e.g. if you go to lunch and stay out over an hour, but don't want to have to deal with reviving from sleep).

Processing of HD-Video (Playback) should done by GPU to reduce CPU Usage. On older Systems a HD-Video Playback isn't possible under Linux.

if i have 1GB or 2GB of ram, it would be really nice, if i could choose an option at the beginning of liveCD - "load all files to RAM" - this way i wouldnt have to listen to loud CD, also system should work much more better and faster

is it possible to implement?

i dont know if there is such an option

but after a few moths my inbox folder have about 2GB, it would be realy great if i could store folder easily - burn to DVD etc

it should be easy to access - just right click on folder and choose "archive" option, this should create one file (if larger then 4GB, automaticlly splitted into pieces)

also there should be an option to archive all of messages

there should be also an optioon to choose date range - usually we need "fresh" mail

there sould also be an option to choose only one account, or many (if you use evolution with many mailboxes)

after burning then, they should disappear from evolution,

there should be an option to read this archive - directyl from archive file - archived messages should be accessible just as normal mail

there also should be an option to import mail archive pernamently - putting them back in mailbox files

this functionallity would also improve evolution speed

This is such a minor but handy thing, I'm surprised I cant find it in Evolution. If it's there already, then my idea is to make it easier to find :-)

Anyway the suggestion is to be able to copy or move an email to a new calendar entry. Maybe it's just me, but in my previous life (before Ubuntu-Evolution) I used to regularly copy emails for follow-up to calendar entries. And of course sometimes, they are actually meeting requests, but ones that have come from a user or system that doesn't know how to make a meeting request. Most of my meetings are with people external to my company, so this happens regularly.

UI would be right-click and select 'convert to calendar entry' (just like we already have 'convert to task') and/or just drag a message to the calendar switcher icon.

If it was really smart, it would also scan the message for suggested meeting details like Gmail seems to do.

Now it looks like a expert mode but it needs to be simple.
Also some effects on Apple OSX looks smoother I think, this and other things in CompizFusion can use some improvement.